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A different style of knife for me. Plan on doing my first stonewashed finish and some blue lava scales from Pop's.

Beautiful knife and looks really well done. Nice job!

Beautiful blade Justin!

That's a work of art!

I use I use NJ Steel Baron's heat treat recipe since that's where I buy the steel. 15 minute soak at 1500 and 15 minutes at 1950. I only have one set of plates.

Need to heat treat six steak knives of .100 thickness AEB-L. Don't really want to run six heat treat cycles. Could these be stacked 2x2 or 3x3? Would I need to increase the soak time? Thanks!!

Yes sir! Be my guest. I finished up another one yesterday. Alabama Damascus with Mississippi Black Walnut. Blue pins and liners.

Finishing up a small neck/self defense knife for a lady cousin. Overall length is about 3.75” Steel is AEB-L. Handle is woolly mammoth tooth and ivory G10. Black G10 and nickel silver spacer. Nickel Silver pins.

Amen. I do this because I enjoy it. Don’t want it to become a “job”. I do take some custom orders but very few.

I must be missing something. Seems like extra work and extra time to use epoxy. I've never had any trouble with pin alignment just using clamps. I use a couple of these and they are very secure. Don't have to worry about them slipping. Clamps

Are you using a quick set epoxy? I use a 24 hour cure so that technique wouldn’t work for me. I drill the first side insert some pins and clamp on the second side. Remove one pin and drill all the way through the second scale. Do the same with the other pins. No alignment issues.

Very nice! With quality work like that don’t be shy about posting pics. That’s a great knife!

Finished up a new EDC this morning. Alabama Damascus, Mississippi Black Walnut and Ivory. Orange spacers and liners. Overall length is about 6 and 1/4" Gonna try to keep this one for myself. :)

Are you drilling hardened steel? I buy just about all of my drill bits from Drills and Cutters.com. They work fine and last a long time. I resharpen my "F" drill bits. #30 for 1/8" pins and "F" for 1/4" "F" drill bits

I usually take my scrap pieces and make Christmas gifts for the ladies in our family. See the fish on this piece. Wasn’t planned that way. Just happened.

I buy from him a lot on Facebook. Some billets I buy are 4 inches wide and 18 inches long. I can get four knives out of them. His prices are a little cheaper on Facebook. Lacy Smith is a really good guy to do business with. Got to visit a little while with him at Bladeshow this year.

Thank you sir!

Looks good Bruce! Could be the difference in temp or just the difference in the steel itself. I use Alabama Damascus 98% of the time and it always takes a good etch.

If you like your Damascus black (and I do). Try this. I had been using a 3:1 mix of distilled water and ferric. Then doing a coffee etch to get it black. This was done with 45% distilled water, 45% ferric and 10% apple cider vinegar. I really like it. :)